Nineteen of UFV\u2019s Cascade student-athletes have achieved Academic All-Canadian standards. With 140 student-athletes participating on eight different teams in 2012\/13, 15% of those student-athletes have achieved an 80% or higher average in their studies. The overall GPA average of the student-athletes was 2.95 in 2012\/13.
\nPresident Mark Evered presented the President’s Shield to the Women’s Volleyball program for having the highest team GPA, at 3.16, at Wednesday’s reception honoring the 19 student-athletes. This caps off a brilliant year for the women\u2019s volleyball program. The Cascades won a school-record 25 regular and post-season matches, earning the PACWEST and CCAA gold medal, both titles are school firsts.
\n\u201cI am very happy for the team. It is a perfect ending to an excellent year,\u201d said UFV women\u2019s volleyball head coach Dennis Bokenfohr.
\nThe previous recipients of the UFV President’s Shield were the Women’s Volleyball program in 2007\/08, 2008\/09, 2011\/12 and the Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Rowing programs in 2009\/10 and 2010\/11. The men\u2019s soccer program had the most individual Academic All-Canadians at four.
\n\u201cI\u2019m very proud of what these student athletes have accomplished and they are most deserving of their awards,\u201d commented UFV athletic director Rocky Olfert. Mallory Donen, a member of the women\u2019s volleyball team, agreed. \u201cI am proud of my teammates. We are achieving great grades in the classroom and at the same time we won the program\u2019s first national championship.\u201d
\nUFV is committed to excellence in both the classroom and on the field, court and water. The 19 student-athletes that were honored are:<\/p>\n
Nicole Wierks
\nTessa Hart
\nSarah Wierks<\/p>\n
Danika Snook Alanna Blumhagen
\nKayla Klim<\/p>\n
Koby Byrne
\nKree Byrne
\nCraig Robinson*
\nSahib Phagura<\/p>\n
Trevor Nickel*<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s Volleyball
\nMallory Donen
\nBrittany Stewart*<\/p>\n
Emmett Campbell
\nHayden Averill
\nLukasz Grabowski
\nGenevieve St. Martin
\nBethany Tait
\nStefanie Schoenberger<\/p>\n
*Graduated in June, 2013<\/p>\n
Previous President\u2019s Shield recipients:
\n2007-08 Women\u2019s Volleyball 3.24
\n2008-09 Women\u2019s Volleyball 3.22
\n2009-10 Men\u2019s\/Women\u2019s Rowing 3.72
\n2010-11 Men\u2019s\/Women\u2019s Rowing 3.21
\n2011-12 Women\u2019s Volleyball 2.95<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.ufvcascades.ca<\/a><\/p>\n For more information, contact David Kent at david.kent@ufv.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nineteen of UFV\u2019s Cascade student-athletes have achieved Academic All-Canadian standards. With 140 student-athletes participating on eight different teams in 2012\/13, 15% of those student-athletes have achieved an 80% or higher average in their studies. The overall GPA average of the student-athletes was 2.95 in 2012\/13. President Mark Evered presented the President’s Shield to the Women’s … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17656,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/17656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}